Over 25 years of providing accounting, finance, tax, and strategic services.

Manage the Strategic Planning, Budget/Finance ($58M budget), Grants Management, Information Technology, Human Resources, Facilities, and Data functions of the college.• Budget and Finance: Develop and oversee the $58M operating budget. Oversee $16M in sponsored research and numerous funds related to a $90M endowment.• Long Range Planning: Co-led senior team that worked with the college community to develop a 5-year strategic plan and then an operational plan to track progress toward strategic goals.• Human Resources Management: Direct the day-to-day human resources operations that is responsible for 200 fulltime faculty and staff.• Data Analysis and Management: Created and filled an Associate Director- Data Analytic position to develop systems and processes to allow easy access to data to help inform operational and strategic decision making.• Space Planning and Facilities: Coordinate with university registrar for classroom scheduling; Collaborate with central facilities on major renovations and routine repairs and maintenance. • Information Technology: Manage staff of five that runs the IT operations and infrastructure of the college.• Risk and Compliance: Work closely with central university departments to identify and mitigate risk in the college.

Oversaw the Strategic Planning, Budget/Finance ($28M budget), Grants Management, Enrollment Management, Financial Aid, Academic and Student Affairs, Human Resources, Facilities, and Marketing & Communications.• Co-led significant organizational changes to the school of law: Due to major changes within legal education and the legal profession I worked closely with the dean and other senior leadership to re-think the structure of the law school in terms of how it operated. This involved restructuring some departments along with process improvements.• Data and Process Improvement Project: Led a multi-year project to improve the Law School’s use of data in strategic and operational decision making, as well as the development of automated systems and processes.• Budget & Grants Management: Prepared and managed the School of Law’s annual $28M operating budget. • Human Resources: Oversaw the day-to-day operations of the human resources functions at the school: developed/updated faculty and staff positions, recruitment and onboarding, annual staff review & merit process, professional development, resolved personnel issues, and off-boarded employees.• Enrollment Management: Worked closely with the dean and program managers to develop an annual enrollment management strategy that encompassed all degree programs. • Academic & Student Affairs: Oversaw academic and students affairs for the law school. Hired an Assistant Dean to reassess how the department engaged students, which led to improved student services.

Contracted for two years to establish the following functions in order to meet accreditation requirements: finance, accounting, budgeting, human resources, information technology, facilities, and auxiliary services.• Budget, Accounting, and Finance: Established accounting and budgeting functions. Hired a controller to clean up the records, establish internal controls and implement fiscal policies and procedures. • Financial Planning and Analysis: From assessing the business environment, quantifying resource needs (human resource, equipment, and monetary) and identifying and mitigating risks, all the way to conducting an analysis of varying sizes: from the overall school, down to individual projects and new degree programs.• Human Resources: Oversaw the development of the human resource function: from identifying hiring needs and establishing a payroll system, to creating on/off-boarding policies and procedures. Hired a Human Resources Manager to oversee the day-to-day operations of the department.• Strategic Planning: Worked on a senior team in the development of a 5-year strategic plan that would carry the school into the post-accreditation period.• Information Technology: Directed the development of two computer labs at the school. Formed a team to develop a 5-year IT strategic plan.• Facilities Management: Created teams/functions for: public safety, grounds, maintenance, and auxiliary services. Developed a capital plan to address the ongoing and future needs of the campus

Oversaw the day-to-day operations of an independent research center at the University: Budgeting, Financial Planning, Analysis, Grants Management (Pre-Award and Post-Award), Human Resources, Information Technology, Strategic Planning, and Communications.

Created and ran own consulting practice that focused on education. Clients were diverse and ranged from the University Hawaii system to small internet start-ups that served the K-12 market and the private sector. Engagements ranged from analyzing operations infrastructure of a university, developing marketing plans, creating strategic plans, and establishing and running the basic administration infrastructure for start-ups (accounting, budgeting, human resources, etc.).

Worked on senior team to develop a strategic plan and the policies and procedures to govern the merger of two institutions, which formed the National University of Samoa (1,400+ students), as well as the day-to-day running of the new institution. Simultaneously, I also spearheaded the rapid growth of the Faculty of Commerce while I was the Interim Dean. The student body of the Faculty of Commerce grew from 300 to 450 students during my 2 ½ years at the school via aggressive community outreach and marketing efforts I n New Zealand and Australia.